{"id":8054,"date":"2020-12-27T17:49:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2020-12-27T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:49:57","slug":"repostshigeru-miyamoto-wants-to-create-a-kinder-world-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/27\/repostshigeru-miyamoto-wants-to-create-a-kinder-world-the-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World | The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>I want to bring us back to the Willy Wonka comparison. In \u201c<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Charlie-Chocolate-Factory-Puffin-Classics\/dp\/0142401080?ots=1&amp;slotNum=1&amp;imprToken=a0bb4dc5-ff4a-63bb-eba&amp;tag=thneyo0f-20&amp;linkCode=w50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Charlie-Chocolate-Factory-Puffin-Classics\/dp\/0142401080&quot;}\">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/a>,\u201d Wonka sets a competition with the secret aim of finding someone who has what it takes to replace him. I\u2019m not suggesting that you\u2019re looking for a replacement. But Nintendo existed long before you or I were born and will, I\u2019m sure, exist long after both you and I are gone. What quality do you think Nintendo needs to protect in order to keep being Nintendo?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the company has gained new competitors over the years, it\u2019s given us an opportunity to think deeply about what makes Nintendo Nintendo. [President] Shuntaro Furukawa is currently in his forties, and [general manager] Shinya Takahashi is in his fifties; we are moving toward a position that will insure the spirit of Nintendo is passed down successfully. I am not concerned about that anymore. Now I\u2019m focussing on the need to continue to find new experiences. This has always been what interested and excited me about the medium: not perfecting the old but discovering the new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/the-new-yorker-interview\/shigeru-miyamoto-wants-to-create-a-kinder-world?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits\">Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World | The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to bring us back to the Willy Wonka comparison. In \u201cCharlie and the Chocolate Factory,\u201d Wonka sets a competition with the secret aim of finding someone who has what it takes to replace him. I\u2019m not suggesting that you\u2019re looking for a replacement. But Nintendo existed long before you or I were born &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/27\/repostshigeru-miyamoto-wants-to-create-a-kinder-world-the-new-yorker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World | The New Yorker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8055,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions\/8055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}